Hugh Grant, the British star of films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary and Love, Actually was in Delhi on Saturday, when he told a crowd an interesting bit of family trivia.<\/p>\n
According to the Hindustan Times<\/a>, he said his father, the 97-year-old Captain James Grant, was born somewhere in India, making him \u201cIndian or Pakistani by birth\u201d. Hugh said, \u201cSo I guess that makes me half Indian, or half Pakistani.\u201d<\/p>\n Talking about how he discovered this Indian connection, Hugh told the audience, \u201cI had to find his birth certificate the other day, cause I was applying for some visa or something, and it was really hard. It was some very obscure town in the north of India. In fact, I think it might be Pakistan, I\u2019m afraid, now.\u201d<\/p>\n Hugh\u2019s grandfather was also in the British army, likely having served in India before he fought<\/a> World War Two in France. The actor has recounted earlier how he was always fascinated by the \u201cstories of soldiering\u201d told by his father and grandfather.<\/p>\n Hugh also talked about how he started acting and the family pressure not to pursue the profession. \u201cMy mother came from the school that put actors and prostitutes on the same kind of level. So I think she always wanted me to go into the church,\u201d he told an audience in Delhi.<\/p>\n He said he was 23 when he took up acting \u201cbecause [he] was poor [and] had no money\u201d. The actor said he initially planned to act \u201cfor a year or two\u201d and then \u201cdo a grown-up job\u201d. Now 65, he quipped, \u201cIn some ways, I\u2019m ashamed of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n Much like Hugh, many British celebrities have India somewhere in their family history. Rudyard Kipling, the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Jungle Book, was born in Mumbai<\/a> \u2014 then Bombay \u2014 in 1865. George Orwell, known best for writing Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm, was born in Bihar<\/a> in 1903. Singer Engelbert Humperdinck was born in Chennai<\/a> \u2014 then Madras \u2014 in 1936.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugh Grant, the British star of films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Bridget Jones\u2019s Diary and Love,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-328856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}